Williams v. Fundaburk’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2004
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hall & Brown Woodworking Machine Co. v. Haley Furniture & Mfg. Co. · First Nat. Bank v. Huntsville Bank & Trust Co. · Bruce v. Citizens National Bank · Georgia Loan & Trust Co. v. Butler · Malone v. Merchants' & Farmers' Bank
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The knowledge of an agent may be imputed to the principal as a matter of law, creating an incontestable presumption; but that arises only when the agent acquires the knowledge as an incident to the transaction of the business of the principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.